I would like to address to the ballet community, ballet dancers, my colleagues — choreographers and directors, theatre and ballet lovers and fans, all creative people, all those who are somehow linked and belong to the arts, to my friends, including those on Facebook, to my acquaintances. And I would like to declare that all accusations against me have no ground! Demonized and humiliated, I have no opportunity to pursue my professional activities, to ensure a decent life to my own family, to live in freedom in my father's land for the last 12 years.
I am urging you to put your faith in my truth! It may happen at any moment that I find myself confined in Georgia and go through violence, tortures and humiliation in different ways. Coming back to Georgia is life-threatening for me. But today I don't think about my own life so much. The most important is my truth and the name that I will leave behind me, leave to my children, to my beloved ones, to my friends. I insist that there exist no reliable documents that could form a basis for prosecution for the offences I was accused of! 12 years of my life are wiped out! These were 12 years without my children, 12 years of loneliness!
I am not guilty!
Tamaz Vashakidze. May 26, 2017.
